Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

כתובים (Ketuvim)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9900
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

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• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9900
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Parts of the Hagiographa: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, and Five Scrolls.

Notes

• Tidemark at head, sometimes at edges.
   
• Front paper leaves repaired/infilled before rebinding.
   
• Incomplete at the end.
   

Extent

239 folios; 239 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound. Spine: 'Psalms, Prov., Job, & V Megilloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9900.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 39; written lines: 39; Uniform layout. Hair and flesh sides are distinguishable.

Script

Sephardi semi-cursive script, punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 712: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 237r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [ii]v).
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996).

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